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Informational text Common Core RL.11-12.3 resources
Black Cat, Edgar Allan Poe short story + non-fiction, PDF & Google Drive, CCSS
Use “The Black Cat” by American Gothic/Dark Romantic writer Edgar Allan Poe to teach your students the elements of literary analysis, get them thinking deeply about the short story's text, and provide opportunities for real-world connections to this grisly story via a 2009 newspaper article (link included) and critical reading activity. This two-day lesson plan includes a full-text copy of the story, a 10-question deep-thinking exercise (with detailed answer key, of course), and a real-world inf
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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The Things They Carried Activities Unit BUNDLE - Vietnam War Projects
This 190-page bundle of ten resources is everything you will ever need to dive in to Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried. It includes 17 detailed lesson plans and accompanying assessments, writing exercises, and handouts.It is designed for students in AP English Language & Composition, dual enrollment, college freshman composition, or a Common Core-aligned American literature class. The unit addresses skills needed for AP English Literature & Composition and is tightly aligned with Com
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10th - 12th
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Jack the Ripper: Tone & Bias in the Media Coverage of this Infamous Murder Case
Jack the Ripper. One of the most notorious serial killers of all time. And he was never caught. There are over 100 theories about his identity. If you're looking for a high-interest nonfiction topic to get your students interested in analyzing nonfiction, this is it! This activity has two parts. The first parts takes students through an exercise of identifying tone in a news article written about Jack the Ripper. There are four articles in this part of this lesson that all come from The L
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Thanatopsis, William Cullen Bryant, Multimedia Poem Analysis, PDF & Google, CCSS
Take a challenging poem and it make it far more accessible with these dynamic multimedia materials that will help students build connections between our modern world and the 1817 thoughts of American poet William Cullen Bryant.Romanticism poetry can be tough for today’s teens to master, but linking a poem’s themes to students’ own lives and popular media helps create a much richer experience. These print/post-and-teach materials do just that!This lesson, which will take at least two class period
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9th - 12th
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Farewell to Manzanar, Japanese Internment, Chapter Questions, PDF & Google Drive
Use this package of chapter-by-chapter questions as you take your class through Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston’s compelling true story, Farewell to Manzanar. As we work to pull more non-fiction materials into our Common Core-aligned classrooms, this autobiographical account of life in a Japanese internment camp during WWII is an important title to include. The worksheet questions (both printable PDF & interactive Google Drive versions included) were designed to pull your students into the Wakatsuk
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8th - 11th
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Worksheets, PowerPoint, Task Cards
Help your students make sense of Jonathan Edwards's famous Puritan sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, with these fun and engaging activities. The files in this bundle can help you create or freshen up your unit or lesson plans.
Included in this bundle:
• 24 figurative language task cards on the sermon with answer keys
• A 10-slide introductory PowerPoint that includes activities
• Two vocabulary activities
• A smartly-designed two-page extract of the sermon, perfect for annotating
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9th - 12th
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Full Year High School English Curriculum: Secondary ELA 9-12 Common Core Aligned
If you are teaching a new high school English course this year, or you're looking to upgrade your current high school English class curriculum, this full year ELA curriculum is for YOU! This Common Core Standards aligned English Language Arts curriculum will help you create meaningful learning experiences for your secondary English students AND protect your time outside of contract hours.This English curriculum is perfect for you if are looking for...creative, effective activities for you and yo
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9th - 12th
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Paired Texts - A Midsummer Night's Dream & Newspaper Article
Make teaching Shakespeare relevant with connections to nonfiction texts. Students complete close readings of two texts: an excerpt from William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The New York Times online article (link provided) “Modern Love--Breaking our Parents’ Rules for Love.” Using an excerpt from the play will make Shakespeare manageable and engaging for many of your students.In addition to the printable lesson, this resource may be used for online learning with EASEL by TpT.Stu
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9th - 12th
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Teach Reading Comprehension Skills using Music as Poetry | Printable & Digital
Teach high school reading comprehension and analysis skills using music as poetry activities (Printable & Digital): Use song lyrics and music videos to teach EVERY high school reading literature and reading informational text common core state standard to cover entire Grade 9 - 12 English Curriculum. All 15 lessons include editable lesson plans, student handouts, PowerPoint slides, Answer Keys, Rubrics, Google Docs, Google Slides for no prep distance learning or Google Classroom activities.C
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
ELA Task Card Bundle (192 Task Cards!) / Print and Digital / Google Slides
Task cards are a great way to connect instruction, content, and movement. For this reason, I have been working hard to develop a series of task cards that work for multiple texts. Each set of task cards has 32 cards focused on a specific part of English language arts instruction, including informational texts, rhetoric, figurative language, literary devices, plot structure and conflict, characterization, theme, main idea, summary, making text connections, making inferences, and research skills.
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9th - 12th
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Dead Poet's Society and Transcendentalism
This is a film guide to use as a culmination of study on the American Transcendentalists. Students need to have studied "Self-Reliance" and "Nature" by Emerson and "Civil Disobedience" by Thoreau (or excerpts of these pieces from a textbook) and preferably bits of Walden to complete the tasks required.
The student characters in the film all try, to differing degrees, to follow the ideals of non-conformity, self-reliance, non-violent protest, reverence for nature and a respect for personal exper
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10th - 12th
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340 High School Reading and ELA Test Prep Common Core Questions for State Exams
Are you looking for a test prep resource that will help your students be prepared for the types of questions that they will see on your reading and language arts state exams? The following resource includes 340 rigorous questions patterned after released state exams as well as the question banks from print and electronic resources from some of the top test prep vendors. You will not find a question stem bank this large and diverse anywhere! This tool is the ideal test prep tool for grades 9-1
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9th - 12th
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High School Common Core English Language Arts IEP Goal Bank
This IEP goal bank was created to assist special education teachers with the task of writing standards-based IEP goals in English Language Arts. Speech-Language Pathologists should also find this resource to be useful when creating IEP goals and collaborating with teachers.After spending countless hours developing IEP goals myself and really having to think through how to best individualize goals and objectives for my own students, I wanted to share this resource to help other special education
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9th - 12th, Staff
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ELA Full Year American Literature Curriculum Grades 11-12 Bundle
Set your students up for success with this zero prep, print and Google slides ready curriculum resource a full year of your American Literature course. In this resource you will find 13 units that span 36+ weeks of instruction:Rhetoric of the American RevolutionPost Revolution: American RomanticismPrelude to the Civil War: American TranscendentalismThe Dark Romanticism of Edgar Allan PoeThe Anti-Slavery Rhetoric of Frederick DouglassRealism and Early Feminist LiteratureThe Harlem RenaissanceLite
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9th - 12th
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Ambrose Bierce's “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” – 15 Common Core Tasks
This Common Core resource includes 15 rigorous unit learning tasks for Ambrose Bierce’s short story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. The graphic organizers, rubrics, ar
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9th - 12th
The Things They Carried Novel Study + Stations + Narrative Project English AP
Huge Bundle that goes WAY BEYOND a typical novel study. Ditch the boring quizzes and vocabulary fill-in-the-blanks in favor of this unique and engaging unit that has been approved by my NYC high school students, who aren't easy to please!This complete, no prep unit includes:**36-slide editable PowerPoint **14-page Unit Plan (editable Word) including: Essential questionsEnduring understandingsCCSS (grades 11-12)Focus on Author's StyleDaily step-by-step lesson plans with teacher and student direct
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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ELA Full Semester American Literature Curriculum Grades 11-12 Bundle
Set your students up for success with this zero prep, print and Google slides ready curriculum resource an entire semester of your American Literature course. In this resource you will find 6 units that span 18 weeks of instruction:Rhetoric of the American RevolutionPost Revolution: American RomanticismPrelude to the Civil War: American TranscendentalismThe Dark Romanticism of Edgar Allan PoeThe Anti-Slavery Rhetoric of Frederick DouglassRealism and Early Feminist LiteratureTake a look at my FRE
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9th - 12th
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High School Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions | Printable & Digital
Teach EVERY high school ELA (Grade 9 - 12) reading literature and reading informational text common core standard using fun read along videos of meaningful children's books (printable & Digital). 16 no prep lessons include editable lesson plan, student handouts, PowerPoint slides, Google Doc, Google Slides and grading rubrics for no prep distance learning or Google Classroom activities. Fun independent reading activities for beginning of the year, end of the year, fun Friday activities or an
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9th - 12th
Kate Chopin's “The Story of an Hour” – 15 Rigorous Common Core Learning Tasks
This Common Core resource includes 15 rigorous unit learning tasks for Kate Chopin’s short story, "The Story of an Hour." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. The graphic organizers, rubrics, articles, and othe
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9th - 12th
ELA Grades 11-12 Quarter 4 (Spring) American Literature Curriculum Bundle
Set your students up for success with this nearly zero prep, print and Google slides ready curriculum resource for Quarter 4 (Spring) of your American Literature course. In this resource you will find 4 different units that span 9 weeks of instruction:The Southern GothicThe Crucible20th Century American RhetoricContemporary and Diverse Short StoriesTake a look at my FREE Q4 Roadmap for a more in-depth look at these units.This curriculum bundle includes a wealth of print-ready resources, in-depth
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9th - 12th
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Orwell's 1984 - Compare 1984 to Today - Group Research Presentation Project
George Orwell's purpose for writing 1984 was to demonstrate what our world could become based on practices of his 1948 society. Assess your high school ELA students' recognition of the importance of 1984 to them, today. Engage students with this detailed research and presentation activity. This activity guides students through researching, organizing, and performing a creative presentation comparing the society depicted in Orwell's 1984 to today's world. No prep.Each group chooses one of the f
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9th - 12th
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Book Review Template for Middle School
BOOK REVIEW TEMPLATE FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL? Yes - this is SO FUN and a great way to get kids reading books and telling you all about them! This NO PREP Book Review template for middle school or high school is the perfect resource for holding students accountable for their reading in a fun and engaging way! This book review template for middle school or high school poster can be used like this: with ANY book! as an assessment! as a wrap up activity or end of a unit or independent reading expectation.
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6th - 8th
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The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin - Novel Studies Reading Bundle
This bundle includes everything you need to get you started when teaching The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin. With over 130 pages of vocabulary and reading activities, the hard work is done for you when reading this classic novel with your class. This download includes close-reading worksheets for every chapter of the novel, as well as reading quizzes for every two chapters. Close-reading worksheets include questions regarding character analysis, figurative language, and close-ended questi
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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They Called Us Enemy Novel Study
There are four activities in the introduction document. Students have a brief slide deck; a primary source news article from the San Francisco Chronicle, 1942; an explanation of Japanese Relocation Centers; and videos with multiple perspectives to better understand the events that led up to Japanese-Americans' incarceration during WWII. There are four documents for students to take notes on a template for characters, conflict, significant quotes, and summaries. The notes are broken up every 50 p
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11th
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